by Tracksuit CEO

In our SXSW Interactive session entitled: Blog on Company Time Without Getting Dooced, we’re going to be looking at the relationship between your blog and your day job. We’ll show you how not to get fired for your blog, we’ll also show you how to get a promotion because of your blog. But right now I’m going to show you why you don’t really need company time to blog (believe it or not).

In my post on How to Use Diigo I showed you how Diigo can make your blogging routine much more efficient. Diigo is just one of those online tools that has so many uses, you can actually adapt it to do what you need it to. My team and I are helping Diigo alpha-test the next version of their tool (coming soon). In our eBook we’ll share tools like these that we could probably live without, but life would just lose all of its joy and vigor if we did.

So you may be asking, “How can I possibly write a blog post without dipping my pen in the company ink?” Well, here are some ways to do just that:

The 2 minute blog post

To execute the 2 minute blog post you must do 3 things:

1. Join Diigo.com
2. Have a blog
3. Read things on the Internet

Okay, so if you’re still reading that means you have all 3 of these things under your belt (or soon will).

When reading an article that inspires you to write a blog post, you should simply highlight the text you want to quote then right click and choose “Blog This”.

If you haven’t already done so, you will then be prompted to set up your blog(s). Once the initial set up is done you will see a window like this:

In the window appears the text you highlighted (they even indent it for you), so all that is left is for you to do is write your post. Because of certain constraints of this tool (difficulty uploading pictures, limited visual editing), I’m allowing 1 minute for you to write here. Just a comment or pithy summary of the quote will do, nothing fancy. More involved and longer posts should be reserved for your blog’s editor or BlogDesk (Ross Hunter writes all about this great tool in the eBook).

The last thing for you to do is simply publish your post. You’re done, a 2 minute blog post! You can tell your employer I said, “you’re welcome”.

Let’s meet up: daniel@tracksuitceo.com

TrackSuit CEO will be at SXSW Interactive March 9 at 11:30 in Ballroom E

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